Food product.



form, having its fish cakes, -iish chowder, or

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"TEEN G. FLEWIL NQ, 033 BGSTQN, IiUiiSSACHUSEETS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, dorm G. FLEL'dHfll, citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Food Products, of "which the following is a specification.

This invention is a food product in powdered, tablet, or other suitable form.

The object of the invention is to provide a food compound composed of fish and vegetables, reduced to powder, or compressed into tablet lform, and capable of being mixed with suita 1e quantities of Water to produce the like, as the taste may dictate, and to the full nutritive value thereof unimpaired.

To produce the improved food compound forming the invention, fish of any desired description, after being thoroughly cleansed, 'is placed Within a closed receptacle, with any preferred quantity of peeled potatoes. The bones of the fish may or may not be removed, as desired. While Within said receptacle the articles are subjected to the direct action of steam, under pressure until thoroughly cooked and digested, the action of the steam being such that the fish and verge tables become thoroughly intermingled. After the ingredients are completely cooked and digested, as described, they are dried in suitable manner, until sufficient moisture is separated therefrom to permit the mass t disintegrate into comminuted or powder food value unchanged. desired, the powder thus produced may be compressed into tablets. The dried anu comminuted compound may be placed in 4 boxes or other packages, or protected. from lo the atmosphere in any other preferred man onions, or other so or salt fish is used,

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lhe relative proportions of fish and potatoes may be varied, the invention not being limited in this particular, and if desired flavoring ingredients may be added, as taste may dictate, or the trade may demand. Either fresh or salt fishi may be employed. If fresh fish are used, salt should be added, but irrespective of Whether fresh the amount of salt in the ,posed of Patented Jan. 2, 191?.

Application filed May 23, 1836. Serial 350. 99,32?

Whole compound should not exceed What may be fairly balanced by the amount of water required to put the mixture in the form of fish cakes, or of fish chowder, ready for coolrin I The removal of the bones from the fish is rendered unneces. \ry by reason of the fact that they will disintegrate under the steam pressure and readily conuningle with the rest of the ingredients, thereby adding a food constituent of high value, which may be readily digested by the weakest stomach, without the least derangement or disturbt will be readily understood thatthe imed food powder or tablet herein doso iced, will supply a natural food, comvegetables with all of the edible properi es of the fish, and will retain its food value indefinitely, being capable of ready conversion for domestic use by the admixture of suitable quantity of Water. The natural freshness and flavor of the ingredients of the compound, are preserved with all of the nutritive value thereof, and by utilizing the bones of the fish, a valuable food component, heretofore purposely eliminated in the cooking of fish, is retained, and in a condition, y iich will not in any Way detract the digestibility a cooked in a l ry,

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